Determining knowledge, attitudes and practices on food waste management among undergraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Selangor cawangan Puncak Alam: article

Food waste is generated at various stages of the supply chain including processing, distribution and consumption and has been received increased attention on both academic and societal levels in the past decades. The impacts associated with food waste include greenhouse gas emissions and resource use inefficiency. The aim of this study is to determine the food waste management among students in Universiti Teknologi Mara Selangor Kampus Puncak Alam. The information was collected by using questionnaire comprising four sections: demographic information, knowledge, attitude and practice on food waste. This finding showed that the students has a high level of knowledge (3.935 ± 0.9699), attitude (5.100 ± 0.9798) and practice (2.672 ± 0.8897) (KAP) towards food waste management. There was a positive significant correlation between knowledge with attitude (rs = 0.217, p = 0.02), and attitude with practice (rs = 0.241, p = 0.01). However, the correlation of knowledge with practice (rs = 0.073, p = 0.31) was not statistically correlated. There was a significant association between knowledge with gender (rs = 14.800, p = 0.011), and attitude with gender (rs = 15.449, p = 0.009) meanwhile there was no significant association between practice and gender (rs = 8.900, p = 0.064). Furthermore, there was no significant association between knowledge with income (rs = 15.025, p = 0.131), attitude with income (rs = 9.381, p = 0.496), and practice with income (rs = 9.054, p = 0.338). Hence, the results suggest in order to change people's behaviour in waste management, the knowledge and awareness in waste management must be improved sustainably so that it will be able to change a person's attitude and formed it into a positive action.